The New World Disorder and the Question of Genocide: From Nagorno-Karabakh to Sudan

Marie Berry

Professor

University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Dr. Marie Berry is Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of Global and Public Affairs at the University of Denver and an expert on gender, violence, and social movements. She is the former director of the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy and current Director of the Inclusive Global Leadership Initiative (IGLI), an effort to elevate the work women activists are doing at the grassroots to advance peace, democracy, and human rights across the world. Her award-winning book, War, Women, and Power: From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Cambridge University Press 2018), examined the impact of mass violence on women’s political mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia. Together with Dr. Milli Lake (LSE), she runs the Women’s Rights After War Project. Her writing and research has been published in places like the Boston Review, Foreign Policy, Convergence Magazine, Gender & Society, Signs, New Political Economy, and more. She is a 2021 recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a 2025 recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest award given by the U.S. government to early career scientists and engineers.

Dr. Simon Maghakyan

Simon Maghakyan is a political scientist specializing in heritage and security. He is an Associate Member of the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor of Political Science at Colorado College. His publications include the theoretical element Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past (Cambridge University Press), forensic exposés cited at international bodies, and essays in Time.

A. Dirk Moses

A. Dirk Moses is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations at the City College

of New York, CUNY.



Raised in Brisbane, Australia, he was educated at the University of Queensland (B.A. 1987), the University of St. Andrews (M.Phil. 1990), the University of Notre Dame (M.A. 1994), and the University

of California, Berkeley (Ph.D. 2000). Before coming to City College, he was the Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global Human Rights History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel

Hill from July 2000 to July 2022. Between 2000-2010 and 2016-2020, he taught at the University of Sydney. He held the Chair of Global and Colonial History at the European University Institute, Florence, from 2011 to 2015.



Dirk has written extensively in the fields of genocide and memory studies as well as intellectual history. His first book, German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past (2007), was awarded the Clio-Online ‘'Historical Book of the Year'’ prize. Recent co-edited volumes include The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials (2025), The Russian Invasion of Ukraine Victims Perpetrators Justice and the Question of Genocide (2024), and Patriotic History and the (Re)Nationalization of Memory (2023).



Dirk's latest book, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression, appeared in February 2021. An updated and abridged German version was published in August 2023 as Nach dem Genozid: Grundlage für eine neue Erinnerungskultur. Russian and Italian translations are in preparation. 



Dirk has held fellowships at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; at the  Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C; and at the Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung in Potsdam as an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellow. He was a visiting fellow at the WZB Center for Global Constitutionalism in Berlin in September-October 2019, a senior fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg in Göttingen in the winter of 2019-20, a visiting fellow at the K. H. Eberle research center at the University of Constance in July 2023, and a visiting fellow at PRIF–Leibniz-Institut für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Frankfurt, Germany, in June-July 2025.



Dirk has been senior editor of the Journal of Genocide Research since 2011, and co-edits the War and Genocide book series for Berghahn Books. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of African Military History, Journal of Perpetrator Research, Patterns of Prejudice, Memory Studies, Journal of Mass Violence Research,  and Monitor: Global Intelligence of Racism. He also serves on advisory board of the UCD Centre for War Studies and the Memory Studies Association, and is a friend of the International State Crime Initiative.